For health, Martindale is ahead of 95% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 56% very good or excellent, against 53% in Alberta. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Martindale live 4.7 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Martindale a grade of A, #123 of 474 in Alberta and #306 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Martindale
A region that smokes less
Around Martindale, only 6.2% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Martindale runs 1.5 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.7 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 4.8 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 57% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Martindale can reach 7.2 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.8 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Martindale grades A for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
The region’s four figures and the town’s distance to a hospital are each ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, then averaged. Its place: #123 of 474 in Alberta and #306 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
How the grade works
Health is graded as a regional score, labelled as such: very good or excellent self-rated health, chronic conditions (arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure averaged) and smoking from the Canadian Community Health Survey, each age-standardised so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, and life expectancy at birth, all for the health region. The residents’ average distance to a hospital is the one input measured for the town itself, so towns in one region can still differ.
17% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.7% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Self-reported obesity, 27%, trails Alberta (32%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight. The anxiety disorder figure is the 2021/2022 estimate: Statistics Canada found the latest too unreliable to publish here.
How the 5 health regions in Alberta compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the longest-lived of the 5 regions in Alberta, 4.7 years ahead of the last at 78.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Martindale’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health beats Alberta: 57% very good or excellent, against 54%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
For 23% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 54% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Alberta’s 52%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The nearest hospital is 4.7 km from the average home in Martindale
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Martindale’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Martindale is on the far side. The clinic list is thin in Alberta: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Martindale’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Martindale’s region is a typical case: 83.0 years at a score of 2.3, where the trend says 83.2. It outlives 7 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 82.8 years.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, 2022/2024, by health region. Deprivation: Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021 (situational vulnerability), averaged over each region’s towns by their residents; income: 2021 Census median household income, averaged the same way. The averages and the line are TownRatings calculations.
Martindale is 27th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 14,195 to 14,738 people, median 3.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maizerets QC A+ | 14,571 | 0.5 km | 62% |
| 2 | Vieux-Limoilou QC A+ | 14,347 | 0.6 km | 62% |
| 3 | Roncesvalles ON A | 14,725 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 25 | Maricourt QC A | 14,407 | 4.3 km | 55% |
| 26 | Bourg-Royal QC A+ | 14,430 | 4.7 km | 62% |
| 27 | Martindale AB A | 14,467 | 4.7 km | 56% |
| 28 | Hickory Woods ON A− | 14,247 | 4.9 km | 49% |
| 29 | Durham ON C+ | 14,355 | 5.9 km | 48% |
| 40 | Warman SK B | 14,245 | 18 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Martindale
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martindale | 4.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Castleridge 1.3 km | 3.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Taradale 1.9 km | 5.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Falconridge 2.0 km | 3.9 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Saddle Ridge 2.2 km | 6.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Coral Springs 2.6 km | 4.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Cityscape 3.0 km | 6.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
Only the hospital column is local here: Martindale and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Martindale shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
Questions about health in Martindale
How is Martindale’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Martindale’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Martindale?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Martindale?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 85.0 for women, 80.9 for men around Martindale (2022/2024).
How far is Martindale from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Martindale is 0.8 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).